Red Sonja... wait what?

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mexicola

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As you may already know new Red Sonja movie is being planned (produced by Robert Rodriguez), but that's not the focus of this thread. I just read that Megan Fox is likely being casted as the She-Devil with a Sword. Now I'm not a fan of Red Sonja comics or the original movie but I still don't find this particularly amusing. It's an obvious attempt of drawing the audience in and capitalizing on her current (and likely fleeting) popularity but I just think it's an awful choice of lead actress.

So what do you say, Escapists - yay or nay?
 

JanatUrlich

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I'm pretty pissed off that she replaced Rose McGowan because I think that Rose is sexier, but I honestly couldn't give a flying fuck. Just as long as they're attractive
 

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I just don't get why they'd want to drag that old franchise out again. The movie was god-awful and that whole thing should stay in the 80s where it belongs. As for Megan Fox, it's just another step down the path to film obscurity. Unless she wants to take some decent roles sometime in the near future, people are gonna eventually stop paying attention to her.
 

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JanatUrlich said:
I'm pretty pissed off that she replaced Rose McGowan because I think that Rose is sexier, but I honestly couldn't give a flying fuck. Just as long as they're attractive
It's just too bad Fox isn't. There are infinitely many more attractive women in the field of acting with more truck loads more experience in acting than a girl who has gotten this far based almost solely on her tits and ass. But even then, there are female actors who are hired for that same exact reason and still possess much better acting abilities than Fox.
 

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It's Robert Rodriguez. It has to be good. But why not Rose McGowan... Oh well.
 

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Timotei said:
It's just too bad Fox isn't. There are infinitely many more attractive women in the field of acting with more truck loads more experience in acting than a girl who has gotten this far based almost solely on her tits and ass. But even then, there are female actors who are hired for that same exact reason and still possess much better acting abilities than Fox.
But like I said, she's hot so I don't give a flying fuck. It's not like it's going to be a good movie anyway
 

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I anticipate utter failure tbh. These days the only woman who seems able to successfully open a movie is Angelina Jolie (as seen in her upcoming "Salt" where the main character was originally written as male). In fact, I could maybe have bought Jolie as Red Sonja as she does look as if she could kick the shit out of you. While in the canon of the original comic book Sonja was blessed with some degree of power, she shouldn't look like a skinny streak of piss.

And while a woman led action movie could be fun and some of us might look the other way when it gets a bit cheesy, I have no doubt it will be marketed as PG-13 or soft R which will piss me off. Sword n sorcery should be bloody and rough. I have no doubt at all that the Conan movie that appears to ave just gone in to Pre-production will also have it nuts chopped off.
 

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The first movie was rather shit so I don't expect much more from the remake, no matter who's who.
 

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Hmmm imdb.com still lists McGowan as Sonja and seems to suggest that she will also have a cameo in the Conan movie as well and Fox has passed. It is very possible that the whole project is on the ropes as the teaser artwork/posters says "Red Sonja 2009".
 

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To summarise my entire argument into a humourous picture:

The only way I would want her in a movie is topless! Basically, she looks hot, thats the only reason people like her. Her acting ability is terrible so, No tits? No Red Sonja for you Megan Fox!
 

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JanatUrlich said:
Timotei said:
It's just too bad Fox isn't. There are infinitely many more attractive women in the field of acting with more truck loads more experience in acting than a girl who has gotten this far based almost solely on her tits and ass. But even then, there are female actors who are hired for that same exact reason and still possess much better acting abilities than Fox.
But like I said, she's hot so I don't give a flying fuck. It's not like it's going to be a good movie anyway
And again, you could have the same thing and more with another actress.
JanatUlich said:
It's not like it's going to be a good movie anyway
Do you know what we also said the same thing about?
Your argument is practically invalid. What makes or breaks a movie are the people who perform in it. Would Pulp Fiction have been the same without Samuel L. Jackson? Would There Will Be Blood have been different without Daniel Daye Lewis? Would the original Batman have been a bust without Jack Nicholson's absolutely over-the-top, crazy ass attitude that captured the eccentricities of the Joker so well?
 

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Timotei said:
It's just too bad Fox isn't. There are infinitely many more attractive women in the field of acting with more truck loads more experience in acting than a girl who has gotten this far based almost solely on her tits and ass. But even then, there are female actors who are hired for that same exact reason and still possess much better acting abilities than Fox.

Your argument is practically invalid. What makes or breaks a movie are the people who perform in it. Would Pulp Fiction have been the same without Samuel L. Jackson? Would There Will Be Blood have been different without Daniel Daye Lewis? Would the original Batman have been a bust without Jack Nicholson's absolutely over-the-top, crazy ass attitude that captured the eccentricities of the Joker so well?
But it's all down to personal opinion! I fucking hated the Dark Knight. It's only redeeming feature was the 10 second shot of Cillian Murhpy being amazing and the rest was annoying bollocks that dragged on forever.

Just because you think Megan Fox isn't hot, doesn't mean you're right. Your argument is invalid too for the same reasons as mine.

And yeah man, of course Pulp Fiction, There Will Be Blood (which was also shit) and Batman Begins would've been different, but not necessarily bad. Actors don't make movies, directors do in my own humble opinion. An actor is there to do what other people have already set out for them. Of course there's talent involved. Could I go out and act as well as them? Shit no I couldn't, but they don't make the parts, they just play them.